Incident Reports

Demonstration staged against alleged corruption in Garuda municipality

2021-08-04

Madhes, Rautahat, Garuda

The all-party struggle committee has staged a demonstration in Rautahat over  the selection of ward chairpersons for ward 2 and 7 of the municipality. The positions for chairpersons in these wards remained vacant after the elected chairperson died. The struggle committee have been demanding that the responsibility of chairperson for these wards be handed over to one of the elected local representatives temporarily to carryout the work of the ward. They have resorted to protest accusing the municipality chairperson of ignoring their demands.

Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Primary Form Demonstration
Primary Cause Other governance issues
Actor 1 - Number of people N
Actor 1 - Affiliations Other/multiple/unspecified political affiliation
Actor 1 - Youth na
Actor 2 - Number of people N
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Local authorities (incl VDC, district, gov. line agencies at local level except education and health)
Actor 2 - Youth na
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